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… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … Hamlin, an associate professor of history and American studies. She specializes on women and gender history in the … Blissit. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on our website at …

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … nice selfie pictures. So if you go to the John Glenn school website, you can see some of the pictures of the protest, … violence in January, which increased into the absolute tragedies that you saw on February 18th and 20th, where up to 70 …

… presidential losers of the American past. Yes, the time has come for all true lovers of trivia to stand up and be … If Clay felt betrayed, he would have a great deal of company as a perennial also-ran. Other men ran for the … Foster who ran three times for the Workers' Party and the Communist Party?  Or how about that three-time candidate of …

… a villain and his henchmen threaten the safety of a western community, whose cowardly citizens cringe in the face of … Lebanon to save it from destructive fighting, American soldiers became the targets of warring parties; 241 Marines … see the relevance of “A Fistful of Dollars.” Robert Brent Toplin, professor of history at the University of North …

… Choosing to back dictators such as South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza, and Iran’s Muhammad Reza … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate property and open diplomatic relations with communist countries in 1954, Washington was quick to …

… abysmal human rights record. Jiang and other Chinese Communist Party officials countered that Americans are too … in a patronizing fashion. But awareness of this should not stop concerned Americans from pushing for human rights and … for Americans to make the case for tolerance to Chinese audiences: by stressing how much the official measures now …

… Glory, at Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, Russia. The monument commemorates those who died defending the city 1942-1943. In the twenty-first … at Stalingrad in 1942, improbable victories and national utopias might occur at any moment in the near future thanks … Media/Journalism/Communications …

… at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An abbreviated list of what came to be … in the 1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; exchanging government favors for campaign … of course, crimes, but if Clinton were ever shown to have committed these offenses, these would be his only crimes. In …

… story, the myth relegates that city’s more interesting, complicated history to the margins. Ian Worthington’s latest … here in a mosaic from the House of the Faun in Pompeii, died in 323 BCE, which incited confusion and revolt in … between Athens and Rome poignantly illustrate Athens’ complicated relationship with the rest of the Mediterranean …

… President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives — created to give religious groups tax … to wealth spread, it was harder and harder to tell who wielded authority. States no longer sponsored official … along with them. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… of the bombing and was able to witness how the Japanese commemorate these tragic events. Hiroshima Peace Memorial … maps, photographs, and objects—a melted tricycle, a clock stopped at the moment of the bombing, and the tatters of … so severely that they had little skin left on their bodies. Several cried out for water, though when she fetched …

… French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars New book from Ohio State historian Jennifer … railroads, and the development of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, … of World War I." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …

… a century ago. Today, the EU faces an unprecedented combination of challenges, including a lingering economic … diplomacy and European affairs for the International Studies Department here at OSU. Chris Otter   I'm Chris Otter, … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website …

… When U.S. senators voted to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, they took a giant step … an apocalyptic passage from Hindu scripture: “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Since that moment, the … over Russian territory, those hopes faded. But they did not die. Long before President Clinton signed the Comprehensive …

… on university grounds a National Lawyers Guild meeting, “Stop the Occupation! Bring the Iowa Guard Home!” A judge … to keep close tabs on them. Spying on dissidents has become official policy since police departments were advised … I. Other “scares” followed. From 1938 to 1945 Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, no defender of civil liberties, chaired the …

… warranted spending tens of billions of dollars. Americans stopped walking on the Moon because later presidents and … economic system. Apollo was also a stunning technological accomplishment. NASA moved in eight years from launching a man … demonstrate that interest in space exploration has never died. What is changing now is the economic and political …

… dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … dot the countryside today. After a 40-year rule, Hoxha died in 1985. With the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse … in 1992, and students demonstrating in Skanderbeg Square toppled the Hoxha statue . An example of one of the many …

… Talk , hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins welcome historians  Nicholas Breyfogle and  Theodora Dragostinova and Slavic Studies Professor Angela Brintlinger as they consider these … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu on iTunes and on SoundCloud, and as …

… impresionante, la ciudad de Oaxaca ofrece vistas de la compleja historia de México. En 1521, Hernán Cortés mando a … de la danza tradicional.  La Sierra Madre del Sur es como un paisaje a fondo de la ciudad colorida de Oaxaca. Los … Guerra Mundial, no habían muchas carreteras modernas que dieran servicio a los confines del sur del país. Asta hoy en …

… over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … Let’s remove one false idea right now:  Public subsidies support both carbon-based and alternative energy … is good business.  Since 2005 Forbes has been listing the top 100 firms based on sustainability. American …

… that the blood in their veins distinguished them from the common herd. Despite the rhetoric about property rights that … this was a radical proposal. In the 18th century when a man died his estate often passed complete to his eldest son. This form of inheritance, known …

… today as American leaders assess Osama bin Laden’s latest communication. Bin Laden’s audio-taped message offered both … when bin Laden goes, as the Soviet Union did after Stalin died. Acheson had developed a plan based on long-range …

… Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … Humanities. Ellen is a very prolific author in medieval environmental history and global water history. She's … recently, Water in World History , a small book about a big topic. She's now researching a new book, Strange Birds, a …